books
Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Middle of the Air”: A Critical Edition {forthcoming}
Edited by Eric Keenaghan
Cornell University Press, 2027
The first publication of Muriel Rukeyser’s lost antifascist play, The Middle of the Air (1945). This recovery edition includes a critical introduction, an essay about the play’s composition and long revision history and other editorial apparatuses, two scene variants, and Rukeyser’s lost short story “The Lights of Summer” (1950), about the only production of her play. Available in Spring 2027.
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The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose
Co-edited by Eric Keenaghan & Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
Cornell University Press, 2023
Co-winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship
Reviewed in Textual Cultures and Modernism/modernity.
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Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States
Ohio State University Press, 2009
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other writing
Many edited volumes, journals, and websites have featured my work. A complete list of my publications appears on my c.v. For a partial list of some recent ones, scroll past the images of the covers of some books I have contributed to.
Essay: “A Counterrevolutionary Camerado: The Significance of Allen Ginsberg’s Month in Cuba.” Allen Ginsberg in Context, edited by Erik Mortenson (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
Essay: “‘Draft 114: Exergue and Volta’—On ‘this endge’ and Other Impossibles.” Symposium on Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s The Complete Drafts, edited by Norman Finkelstein. Restless Messengers: Poetry in Review, July 2025.
Essay (open access/free download): “Out of Alignment: Queer Modernism’s Anarchist Legacy.” Contemporary Queer Modernism, edited by Melanie Micir (Routledge, 2025).
Essay: “‘daily politics, weird shit’: Feminist Weak Resistance and Waste in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Later Work.” Thinking with the Poem: Essays on the Poetry and Politics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis, edited by Andrew Mossin (University of New Mexico Press, 2024).
Article: "Liberation's Love Language: The Politics and Poetics of Queer Translation after Stonewall." PMLA, 2023.
Review essay: "Stevens and Queer Reading: Recent Essays by Stephanie Burt, Allen Durgin, and Bart Eeckhout." The Wallace Stevens Journal, 2024.
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